[Fwd: Re: [LDAP-interop] Nfs and Openldap]

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For people who run autofs ... althoug I would prefer a better method (ie
LDAP filter for autofs to use) I wasn't aware autofs would expand
variables in an LDAP automount map:

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Subject: Re: [LDAP-interop] Nfs and Openldap
Date: Wed, 25 May 2005 16:36:55 +0100
From: Greg Matthews <[email protected]>
Reply-To: [email protected],   OpenLDAP interoperability list
<[email protected]>
Organization: iTSS
To: OpenLDAP interoperability list <[email protected]>
References: <[email protected]>

On Tue, 2005-05-24 at 18:39 +0000, Manel Euro wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I have a single ldap database for all locations in my company.
> A server in Location A acts as Location-A's nfs server and a server in 
> Location B acts as Location-B's nfs server.
> 
> Users from LocationA should get their home directory from the local NFS 
> server and the same should happen with users from location B.
> 
> However, in my current test configuration I have created ou=auto.master 
> which holds the following entries:
> 
> dn: cn=/home2,ou=auto.master,dc=ex,dc=com
> objectClass: automount
> automountInformation: ldap:serverLocationB.ex.com:ou=auto.home2,dc=ex,dc=com
> cn: /home2
> 
> dn: cn=/home,ou=auto.master,dc=ex,dc=com
> objectClass: automount
> automountInformation: ldap:serverLocationA.ex.com:ou=auto.home,dc=ex,dc=com
> cn: /home

set automountInformation: ldap:server$LOCATION.ex.com:ou....

and set $LOCATION on the clients (hint: if using redhat set this
variable in /etc/sysconfig/autofs). We use a similar method to
differentiate mounts by architecture.

GREG

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